Probably some of the dumbest complaints ever

that is the joke. in America we are forced to know Spanish. i can't tell you how many times people would call my job and cant speak English. even get complaints to the upper management when we don't have Spanish speaking employees to take their call

I don't think you're forced to learn Spanish. It just makes sense to learn it because it's the language of your neighbouring country. We learn French in the UK for the same reason.

Of course half of English comes from French anyway.

No, English comes from Latin. French does too

Ye olde English is largely German; Saxon and Anglic specifically, but blended with the Latin mess the Romans left behind. Middle English is largely a French hybrid brought by the Normans. Modern English is a bastard mutt of a language made up of various Germanic languages, Celtic, Gaelic, French, Italian, Spanish, Indian, Arabic, etc etc etc etc ad infinitum. (Latin!)
Simply put, modern English is shite!

You think it's shite, but you still want everyone to speak it.

No. I speak American! Lol

And I don't recall ever saying everyone should speak English.

@drazil Many people that work in restaurants already speak English, and some of them German, Russian, French, so they aren't complaining about the locals not speaking the language but complaining that the locals didn't speak English in their lives

@guestwho As an Italian, I laughed at and heavily identify with "Latin mess." Also a really good book for someone wanting to know more is 'The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way' by Bill Bryson. I believe he is a Shakespeare scholar; knows his stuff...